CNSNews.com has long been a fan of Tulsi Gabbard as someone who claimed to be a Democrat while sounding like a right-wing agitator — and it cheered even harder when she made a big show out of quitting the party she hadn’t shared views with for years. As Gabbard started ramping up anti-transgender rhetoric, CNS was unsurprisingly there for that too. Before its shutdown, CNS hyped one more anti-trans rant in a March 27 article by Craig Bannister:
Democrats’ claim that womanhood is a state of mind isn’t just hatred and hostility towards women, it’s also a rejection of objective truth of any kind, veteran and former Democrat Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard says.
“There is no greater expression of hatred and hostility towards women than to try to erase our existence as a category of people and to minimize us to being a construction of anyone’s imagination,” Gabbard says in a video she posted to social media.
“Such an expression of hatred towards women is now the position of the Democratic Party, and one of the reasons why I could no longer remain in that party,” Gabbard, now an Independent, explains.
What’s more, by denying the existence of women, Democrats are redefining “truth” as a matter of opinion, to be defined by those in power, Gabbard warns:
Gabbard is lying, of course; Democrats are not “denying the existence of women.” But Bannister’s job is to be a stenographer, not to fact-check. anyone who advances right-wing narratives. And that’s arguably one reason CNS no longer exists.